| 1885-1890 4-Numeral Perforation 12.5 New Colors |  Top |
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239128 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
33 [1885 20 penni 4-Numeral, Orange, Perf 12.5] (F-VF) on neat, small 28 April 1885 cover with "FINSKA POST KUPEN No 12" RAILWAY cancellations. Customary "ANK 28/4" (receiving) side postmark, but with unusually bold style of lettering. The date is quite early and defines this as one of the early printings which are scarcer on cover. Wonderful railway postmarks. ACTUAL item. |
39.00 |
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240479 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
33 [1885 20 penni 4-Numeral, Orange, Perf 12.5] (F-VF) tied on very neat 22 May 1886 cover by carved "cork" grid cancellation and JOENSUU 2-ring dated side town cancellation. Joensuu had several similar style postmarks. Customary "ANK 25/5" (receiving) postmark. All such carved postmarks are at least scarce, and often rare, on cover -- especially examples this nice! ACTUAL item. |
100.00 |
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231746 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
34 Grayish Ultramarine [1885 25p 4-Numeral] First Printing on badly worn 17 September 1885 cover FRONT ONLY from IDENSALMI with Arc-style postmark, to the U.S. (a charity organization in Ohio). Terrible condition, but if in nice condition it would fetch $170+! ACTUAL item. |
10.00 |
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237473 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
34 [1885 25 penni 4-Numeral, Ultramarine, Perf 12.5] (VF) on 1 May 1889 cover to the U.S., from IDENSALMI with "arc" style cancellation. Heavily worn, but this is quite typical for covers of the time period to emigrants to North America -- the recipients apparently often carried the "heart warming" letters in their pockets. Facit 2013 value SEK 1200 = $190, but seldom seen. ACTUAL item. |
35.00 |
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249903 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #34 Dark Greenish Blue [1885 25p 4-Numeral] (Fine) The final printing of this stamp (Facit #23i, December 1888) on a badly worn 17 June 1889 cover from IDENSALMI with Arc-style postmark, to the U.S., and forwarded. An 1885 cover from the same correspondence had the recipient receiving mail through a charity organization in Cleveland, Ohio. This cover, four years later, shows that the recipient had their own address and had recently moved to a yet new address; perhaps the American Dream at work. Leaving Idensalmi around 17 June, the cover transited St. Petersburg on 11 June (according to the Russian Gregorian calendar), then New York on 6 July and arriving in Cleveland on 7 July. The destination (Cleveland) is extremely unusual for Finnish mail in this era; most such mail was either to New York, Chicago, or the Northern States (such as Minnesota, North Dakota, or northern Michigan). Though the stamp is undamaged, the cover (as was the 1885 cover) is in poor condition, but if it were in nice condition it would have a Facit 2025 value of SEK 1200 for this stamp paying the postage to the U.S. in 1885-1889. ACTUAL item. |
19.00 |